Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;

they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Life can only be understood backwards;

but it must be lived forwards.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

The more I see,
the less I know for sure.

Have patience.
All things are difficult
before they become easy.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

I cried because I had no shoes
till I met a man who had no feet

Be Content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize
there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Whatever is produced in haste
goes hastily to waste.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

We can complain
because rose bushes have thorns,

or rejoice
because thorn bushes have roses.